New Music, Emerging from your Local Scene
Secret Colours have released a second single from their forthcoming ep Positive Distractions II. The new track is called "Into You", and it has a distinctive pop groove to it.
Positive Distractions II and the full LP, Postive Distractions will be released on April 29th. You can catch Secret Colours at Empty Bottle on April 23rd.
Tonight three bands gather at the Ortlieb’s stage for a free “real rock” event named after a song by the realest rockers out there, Nirvana. Featured is the distortion-driven hard rock band Village. The psychedelic trio stays true to their roots and influences with classic slow, fuzzy jams. After the release of their utter tease of a demo a few weeks ago, the band is proving how versatile they can be instrumentally. Joining Village will be Todd Fausnacht and the Well Whiskey Wind Whistlers, a band that is also true to their country blues genre. Adding in that final “rock” element, rounding out the set will be Seismic Thrust, a surfy, indie trio of childhood buddies playing a mix of catchy and experimental songs. All in all, this event is sure to please any kind of rock lover, and rest assured it will be “very ape”. Ortlieb’s, 847 N. 3rd St., 9pm, FREE, 21+– Maggie Grabmeier
W.C. Lindsay, the electro-punk project by William Charles Lindsay, has released their new album, Easy Victim, Charitable Deceptions on Big Footprints Records today. The label, started by Modern Baseball’s Brendan Lukens, has released a series of splits, but now they are handling W.C. Lindsay’s new full-length release. The album is fraught with doubt and full of questions, but the catchy melodies, and Lindsay’s emotive croon make the album an easy, and enjoyable listen. Stream the whole thing below.
Here is a new, trippy video for Soulpete’s first single “Dead or Alive” ft. Hezekiah and Dj Ace, off of his newest album, Soul Raw, out May 30th. The mostly black and white video follows Hezekiah spitting while wandering around the Czech Republic. Check it out below.
Fast Astronaut lost a point with me for not being efficient enough to name their band Fastronaut, but really, that’s my own bias against the space bar (or spacebar?) They earned it back with the track “Balance,” which gets better and dancier with each minute, and won me over completely after I listened to their entire “Invisible Sun” EP. Released March 1st, it’s a very well-produced bundle of synth-pop that, while mainstream-friendly, throws in some interesting turns that prevents me from immediately dismissing it as Top-40 flotsam. The EP has a hopeful heart that I can appreciate. Check out “Balance” for yourself below, and pick it up from their Bandcamp if you like what you hear. –Terra James-Jura
Yes! Win two tickets to the upcoming Dead Meadow show at The Chapel in San Francisco on April 20th! We’re so excited about this show and we want you to experience the brillaint face melting psych rock from Dead Meadow and Dahga Bloom! To win email us at sfeditor@thedelimagazine.com and the 4th messenger will win!! While you dig on this opportunity, check out the amazing local bands!
We’re so excited to hear and share new music. Keep a look out for more music collections on The Deli Magazine San Francisco! Send us your music and a little about you, and we’ll be happy to share your rad music.
Complete with entertaining, repetitive lyrics and a banjo, The Boundary Stones are truly strange, and I love it. Writing an explanation for the lyrics in their self-titled album is impossible; “jellyfish in a black hole” is repeated 12 times in under two and a half minutes in their appropriately titled song, Jellyfish In A Black Hole. Weird kid folk is officially a thing, and The Boundary Stones made it happen. Their album is available on Bandcamp and you can see them live at The Lab‘s Fest Too on June 26. –Hannah Brady
Featured on the cover of our Fall 2013 issue (and Deli NYC Record of the Month some time before that), NYC’s Wilsen excels at the art of mesmerizing through sound. The new single "Magnolia" – the title-track of an upcoming EP scheduled for a May release – is no exception. Check it out below, and read the cover story from last year’s issue here.
Before embarking on a Midwest/Canadian tour post-punk trio Amanda X will perform twice this week with shows tomorrow at Kung Fu Necktie and Sunday at Golden Tea House. The group recently signed to LA-based label Summer Bummer Records, while suggesting that a new release could be out late this summer.
Young Savage’s latest effort “Move That Dope” (Freestyle ) balances a thick trudging pace-setting beat with torrential turns of phrase that may need a few laps before catching ideal speed.
Easy Lover, the project of multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Wimmer and singer Kali Holloway, is another very interesting dream-soul act to come out of NYC. The duo makes a lot from a little, keeping their sound deceivingly minimal, but epic at the same time (like if Beach House had come out with a workout tape in the 1980s). The arrangements are mostly electronic but feature droney guitar elements linking back to early TV On The Radio, with plenty of space for Kali’s soulful voice to take over.
Sophisticated, mysterious, spacious… their latest EP ‘The Night We Breathe’ is all these things. Check out the truly intriguing video for "Bleary Eyed" below and listen to their tropicalia-laced, synth jam ‘The Sweet’ here. You can also see them when they play at 15 Anthony St. in Brooklyn with Silent Drape Runners on Saturday, April 20th. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)
We added this song to The Deli’s playlist of Best mellow songs by emerging NYC artists – check it out!
With the release of their debut LP Carnivora (due out April 22nd), Elegant Animals have issued the album’s first single “Real” which has a sleek R&B vibe blended in with electronic brush strokes.
